harpoon
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- Dec 23, 2005
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Seriously, how does Mr Tambellini still have a job.
The responsibility of a GM is to produce a roster that gives the coaching staff an opportunity to create a lineup that can go out and play the game of hockey without embarrassing the city, the franchise and all of its fans for five years running. By any metric one cares to look at Tamby has failed miserably at doing that job.
Every year its the same thing. All the media (except Stauffer) can see the gaping holes in the roster, all the fans on this site can see them - one has to assume that Tamby must be able to see them as well. Yet unbelievably year after year he keeps depending on miracles to occur.
No first line center for three years? Never mind, one of these years Horcoff will return to form he hasn't shown for five years. And if that doesn't work out we'll ask a nineteen year old 165 lbs kid to handle the job - and we'll give him other kids so young they can't shave for linemates to ensure their successful development and the future glory of the franchise. Did I mention that the only reason I have any of those players is because I assembled a last place team three years running?
No defencemen who can actually play defense? No problem we'll lock our MVP candidate defenceman out of training camp, pay him to go away, then crush the confidence of a promising rookie Peckham by asking him to play way over his head, give Strudwick more minutes and sign Foster - its all good. Wait, that didn't work? OK, lets try Barker and this time we'll depend on rookie Petry to immediately acclimatize to the NHL game and start playing 20+ minutes a night.
Shocked that even that wizardly GMing has failed to accomplish the job, Tamby then decides to trade one of the best d-men we have for a guy you could probably get for half the price or maybe even, I dunno, scouted, pursued and signed as a free agent. And he's now depending on another rookie (one he acquired through dumb luck alone) to play twenty five minutes a night backed up by Petry who's still learning. Of course guys like Potter and Whitney are still mainstays of our d-core as well ..... months and months after everyone on the planet has identified their inability to play the game at the NHL level.
No size on the roster? Leave it to Tamby to trade away the big, good at faceoffs, third line center the team has spent several seasons developing .... for used magic beans. As if to make the team even smaller he will then trade away by far our biggest forward (the only guy on the team who can single-handedly maintain puck possession in the o-zone) and team leader in goals for slightly better magic beans. We don't need him cause Tamby has lined up SC winner and towering physical presence Colin Fraser. Oh and he's going have another guy with a willing heart (even if his body can't do the job anymore) thanks to Smyth's decision to trade himself home.
Been years since you've seen competent NHL goaltending? Relax. Tamby has a plan to sign an old man with an history of injuries to a long term deal and a run with a player who can't yet stop an NHL slapshot to back him up. If it takes the kid three years to get his game in order that's OK cause we aren't ever going to actually make him compete for his starts or have another viable option waiting in the pipeline.
And the coaches Tamby has brought us? C'mon, its been a disgrace. Line blending, coaching not to lose milquetoast hockey. How is it that the same mistakes keep being made game after game? How is it that we can't teach anyone to win a faceoff? How is it that we are still trying to skate through guys like Bieksa and Edler to gain the o-zone? It does seem like someone has been working with Dubnyk because he has improved in several areas, but beyond that I see a team that is just praying that the miracle of talent will somehow teach itself how to win and everything will be OK. Where is the teaching, the improvement in the basic fundamentals?
Its just a terrible track record of incompetence. Tamby needs to be fired. Now.
The responsibility of a GM is to produce a roster that gives the coaching staff an opportunity to create a lineup that can go out and play the game of hockey without embarrassing the city, the franchise and all of its fans for five years running. By any metric one cares to look at Tamby has failed miserably at doing that job.
Every year its the same thing. All the media (except Stauffer) can see the gaping holes in the roster, all the fans on this site can see them - one has to assume that Tamby must be able to see them as well. Yet unbelievably year after year he keeps depending on miracles to occur.
No first line center for three years? Never mind, one of these years Horcoff will return to form he hasn't shown for five years. And if that doesn't work out we'll ask a nineteen year old 165 lbs kid to handle the job - and we'll give him other kids so young they can't shave for linemates to ensure their successful development and the future glory of the franchise. Did I mention that the only reason I have any of those players is because I assembled a last place team three years running?
No defencemen who can actually play defense? No problem we'll lock our MVP candidate defenceman out of training camp, pay him to go away, then crush the confidence of a promising rookie Peckham by asking him to play way over his head, give Strudwick more minutes and sign Foster - its all good. Wait, that didn't work? OK, lets try Barker and this time we'll depend on rookie Petry to immediately acclimatize to the NHL game and start playing 20+ minutes a night.
Shocked that even that wizardly GMing has failed to accomplish the job, Tamby then decides to trade one of the best d-men we have for a guy you could probably get for half the price or maybe even, I dunno, scouted, pursued and signed as a free agent. And he's now depending on another rookie (one he acquired through dumb luck alone) to play twenty five minutes a night backed up by Petry who's still learning. Of course guys like Potter and Whitney are still mainstays of our d-core as well ..... months and months after everyone on the planet has identified their inability to play the game at the NHL level.
No size on the roster? Leave it to Tamby to trade away the big, good at faceoffs, third line center the team has spent several seasons developing .... for used magic beans. As if to make the team even smaller he will then trade away by far our biggest forward (the only guy on the team who can single-handedly maintain puck possession in the o-zone) and team leader in goals for slightly better magic beans. We don't need him cause Tamby has lined up SC winner and towering physical presence Colin Fraser. Oh and he's going have another guy with a willing heart (even if his body can't do the job anymore) thanks to Smyth's decision to trade himself home.
Been years since you've seen competent NHL goaltending? Relax. Tamby has a plan to sign an old man with an history of injuries to a long term deal and a run with a player who can't yet stop an NHL slapshot to back him up. If it takes the kid three years to get his game in order that's OK cause we aren't ever going to actually make him compete for his starts or have another viable option waiting in the pipeline.
And the coaches Tamby has brought us? C'mon, its been a disgrace. Line blending, coaching not to lose milquetoast hockey. How is it that the same mistakes keep being made game after game? How is it that we can't teach anyone to win a faceoff? How is it that we are still trying to skate through guys like Bieksa and Edler to gain the o-zone? It does seem like someone has been working with Dubnyk because he has improved in several areas, but beyond that I see a team that is just praying that the miracle of talent will somehow teach itself how to win and everything will be OK. Where is the teaching, the improvement in the basic fundamentals?
Its just a terrible track record of incompetence. Tamby needs to be fired. Now.
Justin Schultz is earning those minutes and that's completely on the coach, you do know that, right? And how can you blame coaching already? First of all, We aren't even 10 games into the season yet and secondly, we're second in our division (Canucks are first, not a surprise) and 6th in the conference. I know it's early but you cant blame coaching already. In fact, most people here would agree that Krueger has been doing a pretty good job. The reason why we tied and eventually won the LA game? Because Krueger put out Belanger to win the faceoff. IMO, Krueger has been doing a fine job so far and it's way too early to point fingers at him.
